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2008: The year that substance and sustainability reigned 19/12/08

Published in Fast Company Magazine, December 2008, by Alice Rawsthorn

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... Disturbing shapes and dystopian subplots made survivalism the cool design aesthetic of 2008, but this has been a year when design was all about substance, not style. Barack Obama swept to victory in the U.S. presidential election with one of the best-designed campaigns in political history. Young designers strove to help the needy in social design projects, like the Southwark Circle program in which Participle literally re-designed the care system for elderly people in one of the poorest parts of London, while the frothy “design-art” market for over-priced, often unusable furniture crashed.

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